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Holiday Card Designs

Each year I launch the holiday season by creating Holiday cards for Rich and I to send, usually one for friends and another to his business clients and contacts. Creating holiday cards is one of the most rewarding projects because they’re personal. They reflect who we are at the close of the year and who I am as an artist. 2019 2018

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Hamlet.

I’ve never had to watch someone I love die a slow death before. Our (my) dog, Hamlet is dying of lymphoma. He’s 7. He is my first dog – a wedding present from Rich. On Monday, I dry heaved while we listened on speakerphone to an inappropriately chipper Dr. Ali Thompson deliver the news. She baby-talked her way through Hamlet’s diagnosis. “He’s at least a stage three but might be a stage four but I couldn’t see it in his…

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Fake News Memes

Are you tired of watching friends on both sides of the aisle post fake news? In 2017, after reading about how the Russians, the far right and the far left all used exaggerated or just plain fake posts on social media to I decicded to do something. I collect vintage posters and was inspired by WWII war effort posters like these. I looked around creative commons and found a few images posters from that era. Some of these are really…

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The Fencing Lesson

June 2018 I turned toward the gutter and soffit salesman standing next to me in our side-yard and said, “Who cares what this side of the house looks like.  Look at the mess over there.  My neighbor is an ass-hah…”  The sentence died in my mouth as I noticed a small red light blinking on and off; on and off; on and off.    I was frozen.  Frozen like a deer in the headlights? No, more like the 21st century equivalent. I…

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